New Study Suggests 21-Day Ebola Quarantine Is Dangerously Short

October 17, 2014 3:37 PM

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Hospital workers and public health officials in the U.S. have come under fire for a series of missteps in their response to the Ebola crisis, from initially misdiagnosing Thomas Eric Duncan to allowing a nurse who cared for him at a Dallas hospital to fly on a commercial airliner shortly before she too was diagnosed with the deadly illness.

Now an engineering professor with expertise in assessing the risks posed by biological pathogens claims he's identified another big problem with authorities' response to the crisis.